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by vinyl7 4y ago
"News" is mostly just clickbait, outrage over nothing, and pure theatrics. Simply a waste of time
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by vinyl7 4y ago
There was a vote for the war in ukraine?
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by vinyl7 4y ago
They repainted my gym to all gray. Every car on the road is white black or gray. All homes are adopting the white black gray interior color scheme. Its very depressing
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by vinyl7 4y ago
A decade of money printing left investors with more money than they knew what to do with, so they threw it at anything related to current thing chasing the next FANG (which by the way, hasn't really happened since the last crash...pr
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Eat the bugs, live in a pod, own nothing and be happy
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Feature flags got mixed up in deployment?
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by vinyl7 4y ago
My personal boots-on-the-ground experience has been that I'm earning a little more than twice as much now as I was 10 years ago...but it sure doesn't feel that way. My buying power is pretty much the same.
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by vinyl7 4y ago
> where the compilers had a fast mode for code-build-test cycles and a very slow incremental mode for official builds. That already exists with c/c++...unity builds aka single translation unit builds. Compiling and linking a ton of
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Just the same meaningless virtue signaling we've been seeing ad-nauseum for the last 6 years. Pure marketing
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by vinyl7 4y ago
We're really only a month into the new rates. People who locked in at the sub 6% interest rates were still closing in October. Either we see a dramatic drop in prices or inventory will surge. Housing affordability has been demolished w
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Inventory is already well on its way back to 2020 levels, and is exceeding 2019 levels in some areas. The "shortage" was caused by demand from extremely low interest rates, now that demand has died...the shortage is over. Not to m
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Climate doesn't matter much when people can't afford a mortgage payment on a tiny house that costs several million dollars
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by vinyl7 4y ago
From what I've been told, this is common at large companies. Lay off staff then hire them back as contractors.
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by vinyl7 4y ago
They do that with video game leaks, and I'm sure they do it for movie leaks, music leaks, etc.
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by vinyl7 4y ago
They already do that with video game leaks
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by vinyl7 4y ago
I would argue that the only reason we went from 10kloc to +1mloc is because of the proliferation of bad coding practices...like OOP
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Software has become more immature over the last decades because developers lost the engineering mindset and skills to write optimized software like they could back in the days where we only had a couple of MB of ram. It really does not requ
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by vinyl7 4y ago
I look forward to Moore's law ending, because then software might actually become good again (lol probably not)
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by vinyl7 4y ago
> You must understand that there are people out there primarily driven by fear and hatred, that, once given positions of power, will use that power to denigrate or otherwise erode the humanity of people they simply don't like. Sound
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by vinyl7 4y ago
People hold views, so what? Why can't we just accept that people have differing views, and just agree to disagree? Why do we have to force everyone to have the same belief system? People get angry when religious people proselytize, but
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by vinyl7 4y ago
The interest rate shot up because the Fed stopped buying MBS. Banks now have to charge higher interest rates so they can make them attractive to investors compared to other investment vehicles like bonds
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Or maybe they use that as the scape goat to forcefully push out ad and spyware updates
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Requiring back to office will be a popular method of cutting labor once this recession goes full tilt
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by vinyl7 4y ago
I don't believe WFH will last as long as people think it will
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by vinyl7 4y ago
I think most "crisis" are developed for election marketing and grifting. Horrible situation such'n'such is an existential threat! Vote for me or give me money to save all of humanity! The other side of it lately has been
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by vinyl7 4y ago
That would be a nice relief
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Is it real? Probably not, but that is how organization perceives it. An angry mob on twitter sure does make it look like you'd lose a lot a business by not capitulating, even though chances are 90% of those people probably never were c
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by vinyl7 4y ago
> The banners are there because if you take away 90% of their revenue, they cease to exist. I accept these conditions
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Scientists will say whatever they need to say in order to get funding. "Science" should be looked at with as much skepticism as the media
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by vinyl7 4y ago
Yes, that's why companies prioritize diversity over meritocracy

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